What are your favorite progressive rock albums?

[suela]

"Control and Resistence" - Watchtower
"Awaken the Guardian" - Fates Warning
"The Music of Erich Zann" - Mekong Delta

 

[delize]

would any led zeppelin be considered progressive at all?

I don't think so. They were Hard Rock.

 

[DiscipleOfPlato]

As there are innumerable, I'll limit myself to one per band:

Rush-"Hemispheres"
Yes-"Fragile"
King Crimson-"In the Court of the Crimson King"
Watchtower-"Control and Resistance"
Fates Warning-"A Pleasant Shade of Gray"
Tool-"Aenima"
Pink Floyd-"Dark Side of the Moon"
Frank Zappa-"You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Vol. III"
Spock's Beard-"Snow"
Porcupine Tree-"In Absentia"
Pain of Salvation-"The Perfect Element"
Symphony-X-"V: The New Mythology Suite"
Pagan's Mind-"Infinity Divine"
Dreamscape-"Very"
Dream Theater-"Awake"
Marillion-"Misplaced Childhood"
Agalloch-"The Mantle"
Ephel Duath-"The Painter's Palette"
Opeth-"Morningrise"

 

[darkcheeselord]

Radiohead - OK Computer

nuff said

 

[jonnykungfu]

Not to sound like an elitist, but Radiohead is NOT progressive rock. If anything, they're a mix of Can rip-off and U2 rip-off. Well, they've dropped the U2 influence, but they still rip-off can. Why is it that Radiohead fanboys (not necessarily calling you one, because I don't know) don't even know who Can is? Jesus, I hate Radiohead. Anyhoo:


Frank Zappa's entire catalogue

King Crimson - Red, Thrak, and The Power to Believe are the best. Why do King Crimson keep showing up? Because the best fucking straight prog band of all time, perhaps?? Because these people have taste?

All the great new-school RIO stuff, such as 5uu's, Thinking Plague, The Science Group, etc.

Most Univers Zero material

MAGMA! Their entire catalogue is truly excellent.

Can's first 6 records

Faust's catalogue

 

[Heavymetalzombie666]

Yes: Close to the Edge
Yes: Tales of The Topographic Oceans
King Crimson: Court of the Crimson King
Genesis: Selling England By The Pound
Frank Zappa: Uncle Meat
Frank Zappa: Burnt Weenie Sandwich
Frank Zappa: Weezils Ripped My Flesh

 

[Gildamere]

Aside from the bands already mentioned...

Arena: The Visitor, Immortal?
IQ: The seventh House
Pendragon: The Masquerade Overture
All of Ayreon's albums

 

[Raumien]

King Crimson - Discpiline
Ayreon - Dream Sequencer Pt. 1
Ambeon - Fate Of A Dreamer
(Yes, I'm an Arjen whore)
Yes - The Yes Album
Jethro Tull - Stormwatch (Something On The Move = catchiest flute ever)
Gordian Knot - Selftitled (Goddamn I love this album, so mellow and relaxing while remaining technical at all the right moments)
Hawkwind - Space Ritual (One of my favorite live albums ever)
Rush - 2112 (It's hard to deny this beauty. 2112 is such an awsome song, then you've got the moody Twilight Zone, Passage To Bangkok, and my personal favorite apart from the epic, Something For Nothing)
Rush - Grace Under Pressure (Most seemed to not like the more synth-based feel of this album, but I really got into this album more than most of their others records)
Anglagård - Epilog (Reminds me of King Crimson)

 

[Tool]

King Crimson- In The Court...
King Crimson- The Power To Believe
Tool- Lateralus
Rush- 2112
Yes- Fragile
Yes- The Yes Album
Emerson, Lake, & Palmer- Tarkus
Emerson, Lake, & Palmer- Pictures at an Exhibition
Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd- The Wall
Camel- Snow Goose
The Flower Kings- LIVE
Dream Theater- Images & Words
Jethro Tull- Thick as a Brick
Jehtro Tull- Aqualung
That old live Peter Gabriel album that rocks
Marillion- Fugazi
Marillion- Jester's Tears
Opeth- Blackwater Park
Opeth- Still Life
Bozzio Levin Stevens- Black Light Syndrome

 

[Abhorsen]

Emerson, Lake, and Palmer - ELP, Tarkus, Brain Salad Surgery
PFM - Photos of Ghosts
Caravan - In the Land of Grey and Pink
Camel - Moonmadness, Snow Goose
Van Der Graaf - Pawn Hearts, Godbluff
King Crimson - Red
Renaissance - Ashes are Burning
Yes - Close to the Edge
Genesis - Foxtrot

 

[Black Winter Day]

Genesis, ELP, Yes, Rush, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, etc. The masters.

Also: Caravan, Can, Gentle Giant, Soft Machine, Anekdoten, Anglagard, Camel, Hawkwind, Marillion, Mahavishnu Orchestra, etc.

Massive prog fan here.

 

[Infinity Cubed]

Tool - Aenema
Tool - Lateralus
Tool - Undertow
Tool - Salival
A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms

 

[Black Winter Day]

Heh, I wouldn't call APC prog rock... although it's good stuff.

 

[dying_forest]

Hawkwind - Warrior On The Edge Of Time
Hawkwind - Space Ritual
Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans
Yes - Yessongs
Marillion - Fugazi
Jethro Tull - Minstrel In The Gallery

 

[ouagadougou]

CMX - Vainajala
CMX - Aion
Pain Of Salvation - The Perfect Element
Pain Of Salvation - Remedy Lane
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Opeth - Still Life
Opeth - Deliverance
Amorphis - Tales From the Thousand Lakes (if it counts)
Amorphis - Karelian Isthmus (if it counts)
Dream Theater - Scenes From a Memory

do all you guys have the same brain or something thats pathetic its almost all the same bands hahahhahaha..... king crimson yes blah blah blah your so uniqe and different hahahhahahahhaha i laugh at you

*hugs* shhh it'll be ok...

 

[Deathspell Omega]

I'm so glad that Jethro Tull and Hawkwind where mentioned.... In my opinion this is the best prog. rock

 

[Starless Dragon]

Wow! I'm shocked, and glad, to see so many other metalheads out there who are also Prog fans! And I thought my friends and I were the only ones. Lol.

I guess Necksnappa didn't stop to realize that so many people listed King Crimson....because King Crimson is amazing!!! So much of their old stuff was quite heavy and metal for it's time, Court Of The Crimson King, Larks Tongue in Aspic, and Red, for example, just about killed anything else out at the time that dared to think of themselves as heavy. And their old music is just as intense today. Also, I see not many of you if any listed any newer crimson albums. You owe it to yourself to check out The Power To Believe, and The Construkction of Light, their newest studio releases. (TCOL from 2000, TPTB from 2003.) Very different from their older, proggier stuff, but just as intense, complex and weird as ever, but a whole hell of a lot heavier! Some really heavy stuff there, especially on Power To Believe, and anything live.

Some other prog favs beyond crimson:

The Flower Kings
Spock's Beard
Marillion
Under The Sun
Cairo
Dream Theater
Symphony X
Transatlantic
Porcupine Tree
ELP
Genesis
Yes
And tons more I shall have to raid my collection to name.

 

[Black Winter Day]

Very different from their older, proggier stuff, but just as intense, complex and weird as ever, but a whole hell of a lot heavier! Some really heavy stuff there, especially on Power To Believe, and anything live.

I agree... "The Power..." even stands up to their earlier stuff, IMO. I also think that Thrak is a pretty damn fine album.

 

[VIVIsectVI]

Radiohead Stink.

Genesis - Foxtrot
Rush - Hemispheres
Yes - Relayer
Pink Floyd - Animals

in that order.

 

[NGC 3370]

The Flower Kings - Adam and Eve
Pain of Salvation - Entropia